The file goes back to 1925, so the 1920's are only half a decade, you will also notice that more people left Australia in the 1930's than arrived due to the severity of the economic depression. The 1940's is really the last 3 years, before that more people left than arrived. Migration has gone up and down, sometimes quite dramatically since 1950, the lowest by a long way was 13,515 in 1975, the highest was 315,687 in 2008, both years Labor was in power.

1925-29 = 170,396

1930-39 = -2,563

1940-49 = 219,236

1950-59 = 896,450

1960-69 = 971,577

1970-79 = 684,544

1980-89 = 1,079,878

1990-99 = 790,187

2000-09 = 1,700,343

2010 = 172,038

You will notice that the first decade of this century saw nearly as many immigrants as the 1980's and 1990's combined, 1,700,000.

In 2013 10% of Australia's population aged over 15, 1,821,100 of them, had been here 10 years or less. And each year it continues.

Now lets look at it a 3rd way, by political parties since 1945 when the Department of Immigration was formed. Governments don't change on the 1st January, so I will count the last year of a Government as fully theirs. The next full year will be the next parties. For example in 1949 Labor lost Government to the Liberals, 1949 is counted as all Labor, 1950 as all Liberal.

Total Immigrants between 1945-2010 = 4,542,684

Australian Labor Party

2,320,906

Total years in office between 1945-2010 = 24 years

Liberal Party&Country/National Party

2,221,778

Total years in office between 1945-2010 = 41 years

Labor is worse, but the Liberals aren't innocent by any means. This needs to stop!

Both major political parties are making Australians a minority in our own country!